Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock

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Sep 4, 2025

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Jason Lemkin is one of the leading SaaS investors of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Algolia, Talkdesk, Owner, RevenueCat, Saleloft and more.

Rory O’Driscoll is a General Partner @ Scale where he has led investments in category leaders such as [Bill.com](http://bill.com/) (BILL), Box (BOX), DocuSign (DOCU), and WalkMe (WKME), among others.

Cliff Obrecht is the co-founder and COO of Canva, the visual-communication platform he built with Melanie Perkins and Cameron Adams, where he leads operations, monetization, and growth. He helped scale Canva from Fusion Books into a global, product-led business driving acquisitions like Pexels, Pixabay, and Flourish and champions its philanthropy through the Canva Foundation.

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In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

Anthropic Raises $13BN: The Analysis?

Is Zuck’s $14BN Scale bet the biggest blunder in AI?

Lovable Raising at $4BN and Vercel at $9BN: Justified or Madness?

Quarterly Results for Snowflake, Mongo, Okta, Zoom Skyrocket: Is B2B SaaS back from the dead?

Is Jensen Huang right there will be $4TRN in AI gains?

Will AI wipe out SaaS margins with 10% GPU taxes? Or is Notion the exception?

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